… the kinds of language change traditionally dealt with by historical linguists, such as changes
in basic … second-language acquisition or the breakdown of grammar in the last speaker of a …

… language changes over considerable time depths. If our knowledge … language change
were confined to actually attested past changes and the very recent studies of ongoing change…

… as contact-induced language change – namely, the linguistic results of contact between
two (or more) languages. … In my view, contact between languages (or dialects) is a source of …

… contact phenomena, it introduces a theory of contact-induced language change, linking
structural change to motivations in discourse and language processing. Since the first edition …

… –of languages not previously spoken by local populations. Though this has led in hundreds
of cases to language … chapter in this volume), language contact is part of the social fabric of …

… languages in both the past and the present. Addressing the major issues in the field of
language contact … the role of language contact in the broader context of language and society …

… contactinduced language change, extreme language mixture (resulting in pidgins, creoles,
and bilingual mixed languages), and language … degrees of contact-induced change; Chapter …

… when compared with internal change. the … language history and language change, demand
that... we seek explanations first on the basis of recognized processes of internal change" (…

… of language contact, paying particular attention to salient cases such as bilingual mixed
languages, … not deny the fact that the processes of change found in these “prototypical” cases are …

… accounting for contact-induced change are still at a premium. We know … languages can
influence one another in a situation of contact, but predicting the outcome of a language contact …